my daughter my hometown

Chapter 106 Washing the Stone Lion

Aunt Ma's face was dark, she walked up to the two of them at some point, and glared at Su Xue.

"Well, you ghost girl, your skin is itchy again, aren't you? What kind of crazy idea did you come up with? You really can't understand a word like your aunt?"

"I was wrong, auntie, don't tell my brother." Su Xue quickly shrank her neck and ran away.

Wen Lan took a look, and didn't know what Aunt Ma meant.

She looked at half of the bowl of water in her hand, then buried her head in a ruthless heart and drank it.

Wen Lan's eyes lit up, and soon burst into tears again.

The water quality of this well is good, it tastes sweet and delicious, and the temperature is moderate, but the water is a little too much...

Shi Duanmin in the crowd watched all this, she suddenly stretched out her hand and gently tugged at the corner of Ye Ting's clothes.

"Mom, Xiaolan once said that we are outsiders, so we can't drink water from the well. Is that right?"

Ye Ting was taken aback.

Facing her daughter's complex eyes, she felt mixed feelings and didn't know what to say for a while.

Shi Duanmin has been soaking in medicine jars since he was four years old, because of his illness, he was often dying of pain within ten and a half months.Since then, she has not many friends, not to mention going to school.

They came to Yangxin Valley by accident two months ago. Originally, they just wanted to accompany their children as far as possible, but they met Su Wu.

After Su Wu's daily treatment, although Shi Duanmin still had to drink all kinds of medicinal materials, at least he no longer suffered from pain every once in a while and couldn't sleep, and even his pale face became a little more bloody.

Shi Duanmin likes it here.

It is true that there are not as many peers as her previous school in the city, but there are many strange animals.Whether it is a beast or a rare bird, they are all extremely friendly to her.

However, seeing his mother not making a sound at this time, Shi Duanmin could not help but feel uncomfortable even though he was young but knew it from the bottom of his heart.

Ye Ting subconsciously touched her daughter's thin face.

If one can distinguish whether they are outsiders by being able to draw water from the well, then Su Xiaolan is right, their mother and daughter are indeed outsiders.But facing her daughter's painful eyes, she couldn't speak like this.

Ye Ting squatted down and asked softly, "Minmin, do you like this place?"

Shi Duanmin nodded heavily without hesitation, and said softly: "I like it."

"That's good." Ye Ting smiled, "There is an old saying in our country, where the heart is at ease is my hometown. Have you heard of it?"

"No." Shi Duanmin shook his head blankly, "What does that mean?"

Ye Ting was not surprised, she smiled and straightened her daughter's clothes.

"The meaning of this sentence is that if a certain place makes you feel safe and happy, then this place is our hometown."

"It has nothing to do with whether you can drink water from the well, or whether people recognize it or not. Do you understand?"

"Mom, is what you said true?" Shi Duanmin's eyes lit up instantly.

"Of course it is true." Ye Ting nodded seriously. "So you have to get along well with your friends and animals, and treat this place as your hometown, you know?"

Shi Duanmin responded happily, and looked towards the well with a smile on his face.

Wen Lan was about to try her best to drink up the water in the bowl, but she took a few sips before she was stopped by Aunt Ma.

"Enough is enough." Aunt Ma was very satisfied with Su Wu's daughter-in-law.

She pointed to the small wooden barrel brought over by her feet who didn't know when, and made a movement of fetching water, "Picking water, half a barrel is enough."

Wen Lan almost hiccupped, quickly covered her mouth, and breathed a sigh of relief.

She raised the wedding bowl in her hand, then pointed to the bucket on the ground, "Auntie, do you mean to fill the bucket with this bowl?"

"That's right, just pretend to be halfway." Aunt Ma nodded her head in disbelief.

Su Xue really couldn't see it, so she got back to help translate.

Soon Wen Lan filled half a bucket of water, and she tried to lift it, but luckily it wasn't too heavy.

At this time, Su Xue pointed to the ancestral hall not far away with a look of surprise, "Sister-in-law, have you seen the two stone lions at the gate of the ancestral hall? Auntie told you to bring water there to wash the two stone lions."

Wen Lan was dumbfounded.

She looked at the small bucket at her feet, then at the two-meter-tall stone lion, and couldn't help frowning, "Such a big stone lion, this amount of water isn't enough."

Su Xue quickly asked Aunt Ma, then turned to Wen Lan and said, "Auntie has said enough."

Whatever Aunt Ma said, Wen Lan, the foreign daughter-in-law, had no choice but to nod.She carried the half-bucket of water out of the well, and walked hard towards the ancestral hall.

Seeing her struggling to walk, the little assistant Bai Qian wanted to come over to help, but was stopped by Su Xue.

The well is more than 50 meters away from the entrance of the ancestral hall, and there are more than [-] steps.When Wen Lan staggered to the stone lion with a small half bucket of water, she was sweating profusely from exhaustion.

She took out a tissue to wipe off her sweat, looked up at the three big characters "Yangxin Valley" above the entrance of the ancestral hall, and knew that behind it was the place to draw lots for her daughter, so she immediately became a little respectful.

Looking back from the plaque in the ancestral hall, Wen Lan saw a few high stools beside the two stone lions, which seemed to be for her to wash the stone lions.

She took a special look at those tie ropes, guessing that these stools were just found temporarily not long ago, and she didn't know if they were stable or not.

Just as Wen Lan was thinking, Su Jing walked over with a smile, "Wen Lan, I'm a few years older than Xiao Wu, so I'll call you younger brother and sister."

Su Jing didn't introduce herself, but Wen Lan recognized the little starling on her shoulder, she nodded quickly and said, "Sister Jing, I heard Su Wu mention you and your little starling before. You are good friends."

Xiao Ba glanced at Wen Lan when he heard his name.But what it likes are children, and it just stood still after calling out.

Su Jing nodded, she gently touched Xiao Ba's body, took out a new towel and put it in the bucket.

"Brothers and sisters, you can carry water to wash the stone lions now. Let's go to the left and then to the right. Just be able to listen to my grandmother's song later."

Wen Lan nodded, and she looked at the stools hesitantly.

Su Jing understood this very well, she giggled and said: "Don't be afraid. I just got on those stools. It's very safe and doesn't shake at all."

Wen Lan breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly climbed onto the stool of the stone lion on the left with the small bucket.Su Jing didn't lie to her, the stool was really stable.Wen Lan felt a little more at ease.

Su Jing went back to help the eldest grandmother and walked over. The two stood in the middle of the gate of the ancestral hall. The eldest grandmother cleared her throat and began to sing word by word.

"Washing the stone lion's head, the people of the tribe will not have to worry about it for a lifetime;
Wash the stone lion's mouth, the husband and wife love each other and don't quarrel;
Wash the back of the stone lion, and the children will live a good life for generations;
......"

She sang a sentence, Su Jing repeated it, and Wen Lan hurriedly wiped it a few times in a daze.

Fortunately, the stone lion was recently cleaned up by Su Jing, who painted the ground as a prison, and it is very clean now.Wen Lan wiped it on a few times, and there was not even black ash on the towel.

Su Xue usually huddled next to Aunt Ma with her little tail.

She was full of curiosity, "Auntie, when will the new daughter-in-law wash the stone lions? Why haven't I seen it before?"

Aunt Ma said angrily: "It's not that you are the only one who hasn't seen it, there are many people here who haven't seen it."

Su Xue's eyes lit up, "Have you met that aunt? Tell me quickly and listen."

Aunt Ma froze for a moment, then nodded silently.

"Although we wash the well and these two stone lions in Yangxin Valley every year, that kind of washing is just a routine cleaning. It is different from the lions that the new wife washes at the entrance. Because of the Tongxi, the new wife's lion washing is usually called Happy Lion."

Aunt Ma recalled it for a while, and then said: "The last time the new daughter-in-law washed the lion was more than 20 years ago, and Xiaoxue, you were not born at that time."

Su Xue couldn't help but opened her mouth wide, "Then why doesn't the new daughter-in-law in the middle wash it, and it's my sister-in-law's turn to do it?"

"Not every daughter-in-law has the opportunity to wash the lion." Aunt Ma chuckled and asked another question instead.

"Listen carefully to the singing of the eldest grandmother. It seems that she wants your sister-in-law to wash the stone lion?"

Su Xue blinked, "Didn't you wash the whole lion?"

Aunt Ma nodded, "It is right to wash the whole lion, but there is also a point."

"When washing a stone lion, the most important thing is to wash its eyes. Because the eyes of a stone lion can clearly see the people in front of it."

Su Xue was stunned, and asked suspiciously: "The person in front, are you talking about us, or my sister-in-law?"

Aunt Ma smiled.

"No matter, as long as people pass by the stone lion and enter the ancestral hall, its eyes will see. It is said that the eyes of the stone lion can see the villain clearly and distinguish between good and evil."

"What does this have to do with my sister-in-law." Su Xue was still confused.

"Of course it has something to do with it." Aunt Ma looked at Wen Lan above in a complicated manner, and said suddenly, "Because this is to select our successor wife of Yangxin Valley."

Su Xue couldn't help being stunned.

　This was made up last Tuesday, so it cannot be delayed.

　　It's 04:30 in the morning.well
　　
　
(End of this chapter)